Students reveal gratitude to those who donate bodies to science

It was during an anatomy class as student Rachel Tymianski dissected a dead body that she discovered a gift no would-be surgeon should be without – steady hands.

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Association between teen sleep patterns, alcohol or marijuana use Studying adolescents in Southern California, researchers found that the link between sleep and alcohol/marijuana use was consistent even after controlling for other known risk factors, such as depression. For every 10 minutes later that teens went to bed, there was a 6 percent increased risk of alcohol or marijuana use in the previous month. In addition, teens who reported significant trouble sleeping were 55 percent more likely to have used alcohol in the past month....
France bans ultra-thin models in anorexia crackdown – video France's lower house of parliament on Friday passes a law banning excessively thin fashion models, threatening modelling agencies and fashion houses with fines and even jail if they hire malnourished women. The bill was widely debated in the lower house, with dissenters saying it would give foreign models an advantage in the industry. Socialist MP Olivier Veran, who spearheaded the bill, said new measures would require models to undergo a full medical assessment Continue reading......
Shocking New Study Finds That Getting Sick Can Lower Your I.Q. Infections won't just weaken your immune system--they could also cramp your cranium. A serious sickness can lower your I.Q. score, suggests a new Danish study. Researchers studied 190,000 men who took an intelligence test and found that guys who had been hospitalized for an infection in the past scored a mean of almost 2 points below the national I.Q. average. Men who logged at least five major hospital visits posted around 9 fewer points than average. Related: The Germiest Places You Touch Every DayInfections activate certain brain cells that work with your immune system, says study author Michael Eriksen Benros,...
Phobias in children could be overcome with tuberculosis drug: research Common phobias in children of spiders, dogs or flying could be overcome with the help of an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis, researchers say....
New stem cell may overcome hurdles for regenerative medicine Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a novel type of pluripotent stem cell--cells capable of developing into any type of tissue--whose identity is tied to their location in a developing......